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Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: A Centennial Tribute

Witold Pilewski (soloist), Bogdan Paprocki (soloist), Stefania Woytowicz (soloist), Krystyna Szczepańska (soloist), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Witold Pilewski and Warsaw Philharmonic Choir featuring Anonymous, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: A Centennial Tribute

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: A Centennial Tribute

Witold Pilewski (soloist), Bogdan Paprocki (soloist), Stefania Woytowicz (soloist), Krystyna Szczepańska (soloist), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Witold Pilewski and Warsaw Philharmonic Choir featuring Anonymous, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

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Skrowaczewski: A Centennial Tribute is a new three-disc album released by the Warsaw Philharmonic to mark the centenary of the birth of the outstanding conductor and composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski. It contains archive recordings made at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall during two concerts given by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Skrowaczewski’s baton – on 11 February and 22 June 1956. This album inaugurates the new series Warsaw Philharmonic Archives. This release includes the first performance of Stanisław Skrowaczewski’s composition Prelude, Fugue and Postlude for orchestra, Arthur Honegger’s Second Symphony for strings and trumpet (ad libitum) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626, with a galaxy of outstanding soloists: Stefania Woytowicz (soprano), Krystyna Szczepańska (mezzo-soprano), Bogdan Paprocki (tenor) and Witold Pilewski (bass). We can also hear Ludwig van Beethoven’s Third Symphony in E flat major (‘Eroica’) and two works by Italian composers: Ennio Porrino’s symphonic poem Sardegna and Goffredo Petrassi’s Concerto per orchestra. Thanks to these recordings, listeners will have the chance not only to sense the musical atmosphere of 1950s Warsaw, but also to familiarise themselves with Skrowaczewski ‘captured’ at an early stage in his artistic career, shortly after his great triumph in the Rome International Conducting Competition in 1956.

Contents and tracklist

I. Molto moderato. Allegro
Track length10:03
II. Adagio mesto
Track length7:46
III. Vivace non troppo
Track length5:41
I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
Track length5:09
II. Kyrie
Track length2:38
III. Sequentia: Dies irae
Track length1:46
IV. Sequentia: Tuba mirum
Track length3:47
V. Sequentia: Rex tremendae
Track length2:20
VII. Sequentia: Confutatis
Track length2:59
VIII. Sequentia: Lacrimosa
Track length3:08
IX. Offertorium: Domine Jesu
Track length4:24
X. Offertorium: Hostias
Track length4:50
XI. Sanctus
Track length1:36
XII. Benedictus
Track length5:38
XIII. Agnus Dei
Track length2:46
XIV. Communio: Lux aeterna
Track length6:08
I. Allegro
Track length6:36
II. Adagio
Track length8:02
III. Tempo di marcia
Track length5:56
I. Allegro con brio
Track length13:31
II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
Track length14:17
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Track length5:07
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
Track length11:37
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